Saw It For You: Sinister (2012)

WARNING: Some of these spoilers I collected for the horror movie Sinister may spoil you… and spook you.

Sinister (2012)

Synopsis. A family moves into a house only to find it is already occupied by deviloids.

Trivia

Director Scott Derrickson was inspired to write Sinister after he killed his own family and blamed a ghost.

Ethan Hawke, who plays the film’s main character Ellison, has stated in interviews he became intrigued by the script after being made to read it “at ghostpoint.” Writer/director Derrickson remained in Hawke’s home until he had completed reading the script, menacing him with a drawing of a small ghost.

The original title of Sinister was I’m Innocent.

The title of Sinister in 2013 will be Exhibit A.

Body Count

Stephanie: First to uncover the identity of Bughuul, the Prime Deviloid. Stephanie learns that he can kill people via any image or visual representation of himself. Before she can tell anyone, Bughuul emerges from her visual cortex via her left nostril. Bughuul then throws a shuriken at her.

Spicy Mango Vendor: Dies after remarking, “say, these spicy mangos look a little like devils or something.” Bughuul transforms him into a spicy mango, which falls to the ground and is dramatically eaten by a medium-sized French bulldog.

Deputy: Killed after seeing a cloud that looks a little bit like Bughuul, but not really.

Teenage Girl: Killed after a deviloid throws a 1996 Toyota Tercel through her bedroom window. Her parents don’t come to help, as it is established the next morning that they are “heavy sleepers.”

Tracy: Dies after eating a dictionary page with the definition of “poison” on it.

Trevor: Dies of massive throat laceration after confusing a “hot-dog-eating contest” for a “hot-knife-eating contest.” Irony: he had eaten enough knives to win first place.

Bughuul: The Prime Deviloid meets his end when a young boy (voiced by Justin Long) draws a picture of Bughuul being cut in half by Captain America.

Mistakes

A gouged-out eyeball would not be able to blink, nor cry enough tears to create a puddle deep enough to drown a sleeping bank security guard.

Derrickson has proudly stated in interviews that he has never received any form of medical care, which seems to explain why most of the medical procedures in Sinister are variations on old wives’ tales and home remedies. Operating rooms typically do not provide doctors with access to leeches, crushed beetle snuff or “biting snakes.”

No doctor — at least none who has taken the Hippocratic Oath — would write a prescription for HIV.

At Kragen Auto Parts, Ellison (Ethan Hawke) laughs loudly at a Timbertoes comic strip in Highlights For Children. However, The Timbertoes has not been funny since 1961.

At the end of the movie, Ellison proudly tells the young boy that he defeated Bughuul using “the power of a child’s imagination.” However in a post-credits scene, Bughuul’s autopsy reveals he technically died of liver failure.

Despite the positive public health message offered by the movie, liver failure is not the number one killer of ghosts in America. It is not even among the top ten.

Memorable Quotes

Ellison: What’s that song you’re humming, sweetheart?
Unnamed Daughter: It’s something I learned from my new friend who lives in the attic, Mr. Boogie.
Ellison: You’re so creative. How does it go?
Unnamed Daughter:

I’m Mr. Boogie but my name is Bughuul
I may seem nice but I’m really a ghoul.
I live in the attic above where your children sleep
I come out of home movies and pictures to make your terror complete.Maybe I’ll chase you with rusted knife.
You could beg and plead but it’s going to be the end of your very life.
I’ll chop off your neck and eat your headAnd after that you will then realize that you are now dead.

Ellison: Something’s wrong. There’s no way you’re that creative.

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Deputy: I don’t care who you think you are, Mr. Writer Man, there’s no such thing as “deviloids” in my town.
Ellison: Your careless attitude towards law enforcement is the real deviloid.

My doctor never prescribed me HIV, though he did once prescribe AIDS. Later, I found out he'd actually taken the Hippocritic Oath – "First do some harm."

Still, he did have a wonderful bedside manner and I was always able to get in to see him without too much waiting, so you take the good with the bad.

theggerus

Played It For You: Alan Wake 2

DapperDan

Body Count: The deputy dies after seeing a Bagel, which you have to admit, sounds a lot like Buhghuul.

Hectate

And here I was thinking that seeing the cloud killed him, now I see he just died after seeing the cloud.

Cornelius Tacitus

This movie's deep, like Inception.

nugnus

I’ll chop off your neck and eat your head
Omae wa mou shindeiru.

FanMan

Trivia: The fact that the boss deviloid in Sinister and the "Ghostly Make Out King" in Ghostbusters 3 are both named Bughuul is merely coincidence.

http://jimmygrist.net/ Jimmy G.

Trivia: after a ghost allegedly murdered his family, director Scott Derrickson adapted the script for Sinister from an earlier draft known as Sinuster. Screeplay leftovers from Sinuster include Bughuul's presence in Stephanie's left nostril, Ellison's memorable *sneeze*, and the OR surgeon's use of crushed beetle snuff to "stop the spread."

Trivia: Bughuul was originally named Bughuur.

http://twitter.com/Overflight1 @Overflight1

And the director is now attached to the Deus Ex: Human Revolution movie. No, seriously:

The opening riff in James Bond Jr. track #6 sounds eerily like the opening riff in Smashing Pumpkins – Zero. My hypothesis is they played James Bond Jr. constantly, then started a band, then ripped you off.

Stuart Ullman

Oh, yes, great. They most certainly bring down the child in you. It's a really nice movie, and I agree that it will hit the charts.